MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
09187
Record number:
09187-21
JCB call number:
J590 B915v GVG 9 / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Title page]
Place image published:
Franckfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main]
Image publisher:
Durch Matthaeum Becker
Image date:
1602
Image function:
title page; addendum
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
9.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
14.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
35.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
23.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
German
Description:
Portrait of Olivier van Noort is flanked by two native American men, one covered in tattoos and the other wearing feathered headdress and garment. Also includes two hemispheres of the world, ship, bows, and arrows.
Source Title:
[America. Pt. 9. German] Neundter und Letzter Theil Americae ...
Source place of publication:
Franckfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main]
Source publisher:
Bey Wolffgang Richter
Source date:
[1601]
notes:
This work contains three different voyages; Pt. 1 is José de Acosta, Historie naturael ende morael van de Westersche Indien, Haarlem, 1598; Pt. 2 is Barent Janszoon Potgieter, Wijdtloopigh verhael van tgene de vijf schepen, Amsterdam, 1600, here entitled Relatio historica; the appendix and Pt. 3 is Olivier van Noort, Beschryvinghe van de voyagie, Rotterdam & Amsterdam, 1602, here entitled Additamentum nonae partis Americae. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 9. German.
Time Period:
1601-1650
References:
Church, E.D. Discovery, 168
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1865.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Noord, Olivier van, 1558-1627

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